Category: San Diego

Man Gets 26 Years for Teenage Boy’s Fatal Shooting at San Diego Park

SAN DIEGO—A man who fatally shot a 15-year-old boy at Chicano Park was sentenced June 15 to 26 years in state prison. Bryant Ruiz, 33, pleaded guilty to a voluntary manslaughter charge in connection with the Oct. 23, 2020, shooting death of Brian Romo. Just before 10 p.m. that night, officers responded to a parking…


Man Sentenced to 12 Years for Attempted Sex Trafficking of Teenage Girl

SAN DIEGO—A man who attempted to recruit a 16-year-old girl to become a prostitute was sentenced June 14 to 12 years in federal prison. Keenon Green, 35, was arrested at a park in Santee, where prosecutors say he had planned to meet up with a teenage girl and take her to Orange County to work…


California Mayor Asks President Biden to Declare State of Emergency for Sewage From Mexico

The mayor of Imperial Beach—the southernmost beach city in California bordering Mexico—is asking President Joe Biden to declare a state of emergency regarding sewage water from Tijuana, Mexico, contaminating water along the city’s beaches and infecting thousands of people. Mayor Paloma Aguirre wrote the president a letter last week—which has not been made public yet—urging…


Man Arrested in Death of 2-Year-Old Boy in San Diego

SAN DIEGO—A 20-year-old man was arrested on suspicion of murder in the death of a toddler who received traumatic internal injuries, the San Diego Police Department (SDPD) reported on June 13. Police received a call at 2:40 p.m. on June 12 about a baby not breathing at a home in the 2900 block of Morton…


Woman Who Died on Hike Helping Teen From Falling at Three Sisters Falls ID’d

DESCANSO, Calif.—A woman who died when she fell over the edge of a trail while trying to keep a teenage girl from falling at Three Sisters Falls in Descanso has been identified. Sarah Louise Crocker, a 48-year-old Ladera Ranch resident, was leading a group of four teens on a hike around the waterfall in the…


‘You Need to Surrender’: San Diego Police Still Looking for ‘Dangerous’ Gunman Who Shot Officer

The auto-theft suspect that shot and wounded a San Diego Police Department (SDPD) officer this week in a Chollas Creek-area neighborhood remains unidentified and at large, SDPD Chief David Nisleit said June 9. “You need to surrender,” Nisleit spoke in front of cameras to the fugitive shooter at the briefing at downtown SDPD headquarters. “We…


Man, 70, Gets 5 Years to Life for National City Woman’s 1974 Stabbing Death

SAN DIEGO—A 70-year-old man who pleaded guilty to fatally stabbing a National City convenience store clerk almost 50 years ago was sentenced June 7 to five years to life in state prison. Carlin Edward Cornett pleaded guilty earlier this year to second-degree murder in the July 31, 1974, killing of 22-year-old Christy Ellen Bryant. Currently,…


Los Angeles Man Gets Over 27 Years to Life for Killing Rose Donuts Owner

SAN DIEGO—A man who fatally injured Rose Donuts owner Randy Taing in his Clairemont Mesa home was sentenced June 6 to 27 years and four months to life in state prison. Keon Wilson, 36, pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the April 5, 2019, burglary that left Taing, 58, fatally injured. He also pleaded guilty…


La Jolla Considering Seceding From San Diego

Leaders of a movement to make La Jolla its own city—instead of a neighborhood in San Diego—will publish the financial implications and benefits for doing so this summer and have suggested boundaries that would include Torrey Pines State Park and Scripps Memorial Hospital, but exclude the University of California–San Diego. The Association for the City…


Suspect Robs Jack in the Box in San Diego

SAN DIEGO—A man who robbed a Jack in the Box in San Diego is on the loose June 3. San Diego Police officers responded at 6:31 p.m. Friday to 2905 Alta View Drive Friday where they learned the suspect entered the restaurant, reached over the counter, and grabbed money out of the cash register. A…